NOTE: What's missing in the info I have here is the issue of partial birth abortions, and the baby body chop/shop industry.
History.com gives a somewhat left leaning comprehensive timeline of abortion rights in America. https://www.history.com/topics/womens-rights/roe-v-wade
Clip from a documentary which released 3 years after Norma McCorvey's (Jane Roe) death. She claims she's a good actor, perhaps that's the most honest thing she's ever said, given the number of times she's lied about events throughout her life....In 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a law banning the distribution of birth control to married couples, ruling that the law violated their implied right to privacy under the U.S. Constitution. And in 1972, the Supreme Court struck down a law prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives to unmarried adults.
Meanwhile, in 1970, Hawaii became the first state to legalize abortion, although the law only applied to the state’s residents. That same year, New York legalized abortion, with no residency requirement. By the time of Roe v. Wade in 1973, abortion was also legally available in Alaska and Washington...
Norma was gay until she wasn't and states that she never had an abortion. There's info here about her life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norma_McCorvey
This is a far-left article that I'm including because I found this interesting
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/f ... cna1214381When Roe v Wade was decided in 1973, Protestant leaders by and large welcomed the decision. W. Barry Garrett, Washington bureau chief of the Baptist Press, a wire service run by the Southern Baptist Convention, wrote, “Religious liberty, human equality, and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.” Garrett’s position wasn’t exceptional. The 1971 convention of the Southern Baptists endorsed a resolution that allowed abortion to preserve the “emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother,” as well as in other instances.
In 2003 the Southern Baptist convention officially repudiated the earlier position on abortion among other things.
https://archive.ph/23F11 Resolutions repudiate earlier abortion stance, affirm family, religious liberty
PHOENIX (BP)–Messengers to the 2003 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting repudiated previous resolutions on abortion from three decades ago, while reaffirming their commitment to the biblical view of marriage and the family and to religious liberty.
...— Reiterated the SBC’s opposition to the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion 30 years ago and expressed regret that previous actions had supported abortion.